Dhoni held the record for the 76 not out he scored against England at Lord's in 2007. Dhoni's innings back then had helped India to secure a critical draw as they went on to win the series 1-0 under Rahul Dravid's captaincy.

This is also the highest Test score by an Indian keeper in England. The previous best of 92 was also scored by Dhoni at the same ground in 2007.

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Pant's innings has provided India some hopes of saving the Test match after they were set an improbable 464-run target.

Pant joined KL Rahul in the middle after the dismissal of Hanuma Vihari and with India struggling at 121-5, however from there on Rahul and Pant displayed some focused batting and exquisite strokeplay as they stitched a partnership of 177 runs to take India to 298/5 at tea on Day 5.